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...possibility of blocking together.“We don’t want to add roommate drama to the team dynamic,” mentions Monica Zdrojewski, who has 14 goals on the year.“I’d say we already spend a big chunk of our time with each other,” adds goalkeeper Laurel McCarthy, who has recorded 10 saves in a backup role thus far.In addition to dining together almost every day, the girls even occasionally have movie nights together. Zdrojewski, Devan Kennifer, Lizzie Abbott, and Shannon Purcell all hail from California...
This means two things. 1) The next few weekends won’t be very fun for those of you who rely on alcohol to spit game for you. 2) Easter Sunday is going to be the craziest night since New Year’s Eve, since a good chunk of campus will suddenly have a much lower tolerance...
...editor's mind these days. The situation in Europe is not quite as dire as it is in the U.S., where plunging profits, shrinking staff numbers and bankruptcies are now all commonplace. But Europe's newspapers are struggling just the same. Investment guru (and owner of a big chunk of the Washington Post Co.) Warren Buffett saw this coming. In 2006, he explained the depressing law of newspaper gravity at a meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Corp.: "Newspaper readers are heading into the cemetery, while nonnewspaper readers are just getting out of college. It's hard to make money buying...
None of this gets to the core of the issue. What distinguished Wall Street pay in recent years was less its short-term nature (even before the crisis, a large chunk of bonuses was paid in restricted stock that couldn't be cashed in for years) than its staggering generosity. This remunerative largesse extended far beyond the top five or even top 25 executives at big firms. Shortly before its merger with Bank of America at the beginning of this year, Merrill Lynch paid bonuses of at least $1 million to 700 employees--after the firm's worst year ever...
...their income on utilities - a far bigger proportion than spent by the better off. "In this economy there are few levers you can pull for people," says Biberman. "You can't do jobs, and you can't lower rents much more. But utility savings are something - it's a chunk of change that...